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Journal of Bacteriology, May 1999, p. 3270-3276, Vol. 181, No. 10
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Three Surface Layer Homology Domains at the N Terminus of the Clostridium cellulovorans Major Cellulosomal Subunit EngE

Yutaka Tamaru and Roy H. Doi*

Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616

Received 14 December 1998/Accepted 19 March 1999

The gene engE, coding for endoglucanase E, one of the three major subunits of the Clostridium cellulovorans cellulosome, has been isolated and sequenced. engE is comprised of an open reading frame (ORF) of 3,090 bp and encodes a protein of 1,030 amino acids with a molecular weight of 111,796. The amino acid sequence derived from engE revealed a structure consisting of catalytic and noncatalytic domains. The N-terminal-half region of EngE consisted of a signal peptide of 31 amino acid residues and three repeated surface layer homology (SLH) domains, which were highly conserved and homologous to an S-layer protein from the gram-negative bacterium Caulobacter crescentus. The C-terminal-half region, which is necessary for the enzymatic function of EngE and for binding of EngE to the scaffolding protein CbpA, consisted of a catalytic domain homologous to that of family 5 of the glycosyl hydrolases, a domain of unknown function, and a duplicated sequence (DS or dockerin) at its C terminus. engE is located downstream of an ORF, ORF1, that is homologous to the Bacillus subtilis phosphomethylpyrimidine kinase (pmk) gene. The unique presence of three SLH domains and a DS suggests that EngE is capable of binding both to CbpA to form a CbpA-EngE cellulosome complex and to the surface layer of C. cellulovorans.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616. Phone: (530) 752-3191. Fax: (530) 752-3085. E-mail: rhdoi{at}ucdavis.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, May 1999, p. 3270-3276, Vol. 181, No. 10
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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